Cancellations in the degree of the colored Jones polynomial

2020/06/01 by Lee, Christine Ruey Shan, van der Veen, Roland
#FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2006.01303

Abstract

We give an alternate expansion of the colored Jones polynomial of pretzel links which recovers the degree formula in arXiv:1807.00957. As an application, we determine the degrees of the colored Jones polynomials of a new family of 3-tangle pretzel knots.

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